Pine Plains

PINE PLAINS — Driven by the national FFA motto, “Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve,” members of the Pine Plains FFA have made every effort to show their support for the local community while building essential leadership skills.

There are currently 35 active student members involved in the Pine Plains chapter of the FFA. The fall is one of the best seasons to witness students in action at the annual Ag Fair, though students consistently work to raise awareness of the organization throughout the year.

Pine Plains

PINE PLAINS — The Affordable Housing Task Force has been hard at work since it formed nearly a year ago, trying to decide what the town’s needs are and how exactly to meet those needs. Currently it’s reviewing the results from the recent U.S. census, along with numbers from a survey the task force sent out following a Feb. 17 Town Board meeting.
Fifteen hundred questionnaires were sent out townwide; town Supervisor Gregg Pulver initially said he was hoping for a 20 percent return rate, but only about 8 percent of survey recipients sent them back, which amounts to just 136.

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PINE PLAINS — A teller at the Bank of Millbrook discovered a discrepency after counting the vault Monday, July 25, at 9 a.m.
Christa Hieronymi, 45, of Red Hook was arrested by Rhinebeck New York State Police for grand larceny in the second degree and falsifying business records in the first degree, said Investigator Robert Torre.
Hieronymi had been working at the Bank of Millbrook for five years as head teller. Torre said over the past two years, Hieronymi had falsified bank documents to cover up her embezzlement of $460,000.

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PINE PLAINS — On Sunday, July 31, the Backyard Garden restaurant hosted a fundraiser barbecue to benefit the Pine Plains Sports Wall of Fame.
The wall, which is located in the halls of Stissing Mountain High School, was first started in 2004 and honors great athletes in the community. Honorees must have graduated from Stissing Mountain High School a minimum of five years before to be eligible.

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PINE PLAINS — The Trails and Bikeway Committee’s (TBC) goal is to come up with a plan for implementing a network of hiking and biking trails throughout the town to invite residents and visitors alike to spend their time and their dollars in Pine Plains. To meet that end, it has been getting together monthly to develop ideas, research available resources and see what other committees have done to support its efforts.

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PINE PLAINS — The Pine Plains Preschool will not reopen its doors this fall. The school’s board has decided to dissolve the nearly 40-year-old institution.
Jean Osofsky, who is on the board, said that one of the reasons for the closure was financial difficulties, but she declined to make further comments on the record. Osofsky said she plans to release more information to the public at a later date.
The Pine Plains Preschool has been in operation as a New York charter school since the early 1970s.

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PINE PLAINS — It may typically be considered the precursor to a property assessment project, but Pine Plains Board of Assessors Chairman Jim Mara assured the Town Board the data collection process that began this week is nothing more than what it claims.
“We have to be careful to not say we’re starting a revaluation process — we’re not,” Mara said. “We’re starting a data collection process.”

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PINE PLAINS — Edmund Tannini began working as the transportation supervisor for the Pine Plains Central School District bus garage eight months ago. He went before the Board of Education on Wednesday, July 20, to give the board an update on his progress.
Since Tannini began working in the middle of the year, he did not want to start imposing changes right away.

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PINE PLAINS — The Heart of Pine Plains (HoPP) Community Center opened “The Cooling Zone,” a temporary haven from the heat, on Thursday, July 21, and Friday, July 22, to provide a safe place for locals to escape the extreme summer temperatures.
The temperature on both days reached well into the mid- and upper-90s, with the heat index — or the “feels like” temperature — on Friday reaching over 105 degrees Fahrenheit in some local towns.

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PINE PLAINS — Discussion about the proposed expansion of the Stissing Mountain Critical Environmental Area (CEA) continued at the Thursday, July 14, Town Board meeting; it began at a public hearing on the matter that opened at last month’s board meeting. That meeting, like last week’s, brought a large number of residents to the Town Hall to hear what was being said.Absence regretted

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PINE PLAINS — Backyard Garden, a local restaurant and bar, hosted a pig roast fundraiser for the Little Nine Partners Historical Society to benefit the restoration project for the Graham-Brush House on Saturday, July 16.

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